The Bad Place Sylvian Hamilton Sunday Times bestselling author of

Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies

in an area known as the borderlands

As the country moves closer to all-out civil war

a pelican with a retractable beak and a very agile monkey

to end up in a fishing net

The Bad Place Sylvian Hamilton Sunday Times bestselling author ofThe newspapers called it The Bad Place. A remote farm out on the Thames estuary, where six children were held captive for two weeks. Five of them got out alive. That was twenty years ago. Now adults, they meet up annually to hold a candlelit vigil for their friend who died. The only rule is that no one can talk about what happened the night they escaped. But at this year's event, one of them witnesses a kidnapping. A young girl, Sammi, is bundled into